(1) And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. (2) And the court which is without the temple leave without, and measure it not; for it hath been given unto the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
The reed ... a rod … Origin of reed – aquatic plant; the water – symbol of Truth. Rod – symbol of authority. The measuring-reed symbolizes authority of the God's Word being applied to the matters of the Church at the end of the High Calling. Various biblical pictures, prophecies and parables, understood ultimately and put in chronological order they became the symbolic measuring rod which let to define conditions, the character of the Church and the attitude of her members towards the world in last period of the Gospel Age of three years and a half.
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